In the 1930s there was a strong rise of the neo-Calvinism of Abraham Kuyper in South Africa. The neo-Calvinists started to organise themselves into a movement aimed at spreading the neo-Calvinist ideology in South Africa. This movement was especially strong in the Gereformeerde Kerk (Reformed Church) and the Potchefstroom University College, but there was also growing support for neo-Calvinism within the Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk). From their Kuyperian perspective the neo-Calvinists in South Africa opposed the evangelical spirituality in the Dutch Reformed Church, which according them was “Methodist” and therefore contrary to Calvinism. In 1935 the Rev. A.A. Weich, under the pseudonym “Bekommerd” (Concerned), wrote a series of letters in Die Kerkbode in which he defended the evangelical spirituality of the Dutch Reformed Church against the rising neo-Calvinism in South Africa. These letters evoked a flood of reactions from supporters and opponents of “Bekommerd” in the correspondence column of Die Kerkbode.